[Outline tool preset?]

Hi @*mark,

As far as I'm aware synchronising/saving to defaults on layer FX won't save your previous FX pre-set, however once you have setup the FX on one layer you can Copy and Edit > Paste FX to add your outline to the next.

 

[Unsupported Language Error (Windows)]

Hi @Laura Ess,

In your screenshot it shows the en_Au.dic and .aff files just in the root 'Dictionaries' folder when they should be in their own folder. Have you tried creating an 'en_AU' folder within the C:\ProgramData\Affinity\Common\1.0\Dictionaries directory, moving the two files into this folder, restarting and then trying again?

[Crop workspace]

Hi @Anbawelcome to the forums,

With the Move tool (V) selected, you can go into the 'Document Setup' Menu on the context toolbar, under the Dimensions tab you can change the Canvas size, in your example if the graphic is 20x20 you can anchor the object size to the page and set the anchor point to the centre.

 

[Affinity Photo crashed immediately!]

Hi @Designer1,

I can see if I can replicate the crash if you provide the RAW files as well as a crash report. Below is a private dropbox link if you wish to upload them there.

https://www.dropbox.com/request/pKeaM2nQmXnSflZabmyx

 

[[Affinity Designer] Can I use a personal license to create a commercial product for my employer?]

Hi @VictorS

You are fine to use Affinity Designer for commercial purposes.

It may be worth taking a look at the EULA for your specific rights https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/licence/ 

[can not save file or export image under any different name than original]

Hi @paulius3d welcome to the forums,

When you attempted to save your files under '02' and '03' the Windows save dialog appeared you hit enter and it appears that Photo made no attempt to export the file. Whilst comparably when you saved '01' and '04' you manually clicked save. Is it perhaps related to the way in which you're trying to save the files?

[Starting Capital letter overhanging]

Hi @cre8tivetoy,

You can insert a First Line inset (Highlighted Below) in the Paragraph panel which will affect the first character in each paragraph and then incorporate this into a paragraph style if required.

[Another Transparency Gradient Question]

Hi @awakenedbyowls,

Unlikely but is it possible that the CMD(Mac)/Ctrl(Win) is getting stuck/being pressed when moving the transparency handles? This causes the whole line to move when held down.

[Saving crashes app on Mac OS Monterrey 12.3.1 (21E258) - Every time]

Hi @budaloco,

Does this freeze occur on first run of the program since the Mac was booted? Does it occur if you were to try exporting a blank document in the export persona?

Could you send over a screenshot of your 'About This Mac' overview so I can see your specs?

I would also suggest resetting Designer to it's default settings by following the below:

1. Close down Designer and go to Applications in Finder
2. Hold down Ctrl Click on Designer and Click 'Open' whilst still holding down Ctrl
3. This will prompt for a new menu 'Clear User Data' with three boxes ticked, press clear at the bottom right hand corner
4. Reboot your Mac and try exporting again.

[Inconsistent text size when text overflows to a linked text box]

Hi @CamilleL welcome to the forums,

Do you happen to still have your original IDML file? This will aid in the investigation of this issue.

[Fill Tool or Gradient Tool?]

Hi @joe_l,

It's possibly to distinguish the Gradient Tool from the Flood Fill tool that is also available in Photo. However, I can see that this inconsistency is currently logged with the developers. 

[shortcut keys in affinity photo]

Hi @steve392,

You could try resetting your keyboard shortcuts to their defaults by going to Edit > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts > Press 'Clear all Shortcuts' > Press 'Reset' and then trying again.

 

[Object fill and outline]

Hi @NotMyFault,

I can confirm that this issue has been raised previously and is currently logged with the developers for resolution. 🙂

[Bug in MAC OS develop Module]

Hi @spiderpod7d,

Apologies on the late reply. I raised this with one of our product experts who advised on the below:

 

The fringing is so wide that Photo's defringing doesn't really touch it. I can reduce the colour intensity of the fringing, but it's covering too much of the balcony area to be effectively reduced.

I did have better luck after tone mapping the HDR merge document—using Filters>Colours>Defringe with a high tolerance and low threshold worked reasonably well. Then I would probably just use an HSL adjustment, selectively desaturate the blues and just mask it to the right hand area of the image.

Unfortunately, the lens (a 24-200 superzoom) is probably going to be quite notorious for bad CA and fringing—just look at the apartment balconies on the middle building. 

I think it needs to be tone mapped first. Defringe doesn't work on out of bound values.

[New pixel layers won't accept brushstrokes]

10 minutes ago, AJS said:

My new files never used to have Protect Alpha enabled by default, that's why this behavior was so confusing. Any idea what causes Protect Alpha to default to enabled/disabled in a newly created file?

You should be able to globally save your brush settings for future documents by going to edit > defaults > save

[New pixel layers won't accept brushstrokes]

Hi @AGS,

As Walt mentioned this is likely the 'Protect Alpha' setting enabled on the context toolbar with the brush tool selected, as after i've opened your file with this option enabled i've ran into this issue as the option prevents painting onto a layer's transparent areas.

If you're still having problems with this option unchecked, perhaps you could provide a recording demonstrating your issue.

[Publisher crashes on saving a linked .afdesign file edited in Publisher]

8 minutes ago, Michael Tietz said:

So rasterizing the linked jpg did the trick? Should I do that too or should I wait if there will be a fixed update?

I would recommend rasterising the map image within your linked afdesign file and seeing if this works better for you for now.

[Crop > straighten tool in Photo persona causes jagged edges]

Hi @Simonkidd welcome to the forums,

Have you got view quality set to 'Bilinear (Best Quality)' under Preferences > Performance? This can result in improved render quality.

Also, if you're wanting to export the image try setting Resample to Lanczos or Bicubic.

 

This has been raised previously in the below thread, which also indicates this can be affected by image DPI.

 

 

[Publisher crashes on saving a linked .afdesign file edited in Publisher]

As far as I'm aware there's no reason that you cant have linked resources within linked resources, however I was finding I was having memory issues and crashing (raising this internally) when I attempted to both open your file (had to do 'add pages from file') and when trying to edit any of the afdesign files linked to your publisher document. Once I rasterised  the linked map document within the afdesign file I had a lot more success and didn't find that the resource was unlinked after editing.

 

[Import pdf into frames of specific sizes]

15 hours ago, jfontana said:

The PDFs I imported had been modified and I had added notes, eliminated some paragraphs (hiding them behind blank blocks using Adobe Acrobat), etc. When publisher imports them, none of the changes are preserved

It's possible that this is occurring because the resource placement policy is 'embedded' when in this case you would want it to be 'linked' if you wanted the resources to update. Resources can be changed from embedded to linked by going to Document > Resource manager.

15 hours ago, jfontana said:

Alas, I don't see how I would import all the tiff images so that each one of the images is inserted in one new page in the space corresponding to the frame present in the master.

One approach to this if you have 1 page per TIFF image saved is to have the picture frame setup on your master and applied to all your spreads/pages and to go to File > Place and highlight all TIFF images, this will enable the 'place images' panel where you can manually add the TIFF images to the frames.

instead of using TIFFs you could also try importing your PDF via Document > 'Add Pages From File'. this will automatically add the specified pages from your PDF directly into your file and you can then look at making adjustments after such as adding page numbers from the master.

 

[Publisher crashes on saving a linked .afdesign file edited in Publisher]

Hi @Michael Tietz,

I'll see if this issue can be replicated, could you provide me with the afpub file and all other linked resources to the below private dropbox link?

https://www.dropbox.com/request/LlaFgEhQZgknBVCy6eCY

Could you also provide a crash report file? Instructions on how to find these are below.

 

[Affinity Photo si chiude subito]

Hi @Ciccio000 welcome to the forums,

È possibile che ci siano ancora dei file rimanenti che causano l'arresto anomalo del programma all'avvio, puoi provare a disinstallare seguendo quanto segue:

1. Vai a https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/fix-problems-that-block-programs-from-being-installed-or-removed-cca7d1b6-65a9-3d98-426b-e9f927e1eb4d e scarica lo strumento di risoluzione dei problemi
2. Seleziona "Disinstalla" e trova Affinity Photo nell'elenco e segui la procedura guidata di disinstallazione
3. Una volta disinstallato, riavvia il PC e reinstalla Affinity Photo

Fammi sapere come va.

 

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It's possible that there are still some file remnants which are causing the program to crash on startup, could you try uninstalling by following the below:

1. Go to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/fix-problems-that-block-programs-from-being-installed-or-removed-cca7d1b6-65a9-3d98-426b-e9f927e1eb4d and download the troubleshooter
2. Select 'Uninstalling' and find Affinity Photo in the list and follow the Uninstall wizard
3. Once uninstalled reboot your PC and then re-install Affinity Photo

Let me know how this goes.

 

[Designer pen tool perfect arc]

Hi @Juc1,

Looks like this has been previously requested in the feature requests and suggestions linked below, it does reference a workaround by dropping a node anywhere along the curve, highlighting the nodes and using the space horizontally/vertically alignment tools.

 

 

[Import pdf into frames of specific sizes]

Hi @jfontana welcome to the forums,

if you're referring to placing your PDFs as linked documents and they are higher on your layer stack than your master page this will cause the page numbers to go behind the PDF document, this can be corrected by putting the master page layer to the top of the stack as shown below.

If you want to better define the area of the page for the imported PDF, you can first draw out a picture frame using the Picture Frame tool and with the frame layer highlighted File > place your PDF document into the area

[Color Negative Editing]

This was my attempt from using a combination of a HSL adjustment to decrease the overall saturation, selective colour on red to increase cyan and curves. It is quite washed out though.